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Theater Review: GUN & POWDER (Paper Mill Playhouse)
ONCE ON THIS PRAIRIE Developed at Signature Theatre in Virginia, the new musical Gun & Powder has stormed into Paper Mill Playhouse with enough energy to light the Manhattan skyline. The book and lyrics by Angelica Chéri are based upon truth and legend that have been passed down like the telephone game since 1893: Mary…
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Broadway Review: STEREOPHONIC (Golden Theatre)
A STEREOPHONIC SHOW WITH A MONOPHONIC SCRIPT Stereophonic was so evenly cherished by critics in its Off-Broadway run at Playwrights Horizons that it transferred to Broadway, where it opened tonight at The Golden Theatre. Why? The jury is still out. Andrew R. Butler and Eli Gelb It takes place in a Californian recording music studio…
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Off-Broadway Review: TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE (Sea Dog Theater at St. George’s Episcopal Church)
A COLOSSAL LEN CARIOU MAKES ANY DAY A GOOD DAY FOR TUESDAYS I have seen many a famous performer hit the stage in their senior years with a cabaret or theater performance, something I usually regret as my memories of the youthful vigorous actor is now replaced with a sad remembrance of a once-cherished star…
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Dance Review: WOOLF WORKS (American Ballet Theatre – North American Premiere)
WOOF! WOOLF WORKS WORKS! Virginia Woolf’s novels have had a profound impact on literature, inspiring adaptations in ballet and opera. These adaptations face the unique challenge of capturing the innovative narrative structures and exploration of inner lives that are central to Woolf’s work. Wayne McGregor‘s Woolf Works, originally choreographed for the Royal Ballet but now…
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Highly Recommended Album: MY FAVORITE THINGS: THE RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN 80TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT (Concord Theatricals)
The 42-track live recording of My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert will be released on double CD and digital platforms worldwide on Friday, May 31. The star-studded new album is now available to preorder on CD HERE. Audra McDonald Celebrating the historic partnership of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, the album features iconic…
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Opera Review: FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES (The Met Opera)
AN OPERA TO FEEL IN YOUR BONES Seven-time Grammy Award–winning trumpeter, pianist, and composer Terence Blanchard has created more than 40 film scores (and diverse works in different music genres) but composing operas is definitely one of the brightest jewels in his crown. Before I get into the ‘what’ and ‘who-is-who’, I need to say that Fire…
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Broadway Review: THE OUTSIDERS (Bernard Jacobs Theater)
THE OUTSIDERS IS PURE THEATRICAL GOLD Neither a rehash of S.E. Hinton’s classic 1967 novel nor of the iconic 1983 film by Frances Ford Coppola, the stunning new musical The Outsiders, which opened tonight at Broadway’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, is recommended not just for the adaptation by Adam Rapp with Justin Levine but for…
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Highly Recommended Cabaret Theater: TIERGARTEN (Death of Classical at the Great Hall under St. Mary’s Church)
WEIMAR, YOU ASK? HERE’S THE ANSWER Cabaret the musical, opening on Broadway in a transformed theater, may sound exciting, but here’s a highly recommended event for those who crave complete immersion in a 1920s Berlin Speakeasy with period-themed food and drinks, vintage dress, and more. In partnership with Carnegie Hall as part of their Weimar…
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Off-Broadway Review: FISH (Keen Company and Working Theater at Theatre Row)
A FISH OUT OF WATER The use of drama as a didactic tool usually works when we are learning new things or seeing old things through a different lens. Kia Corthron‘s Fish at Theater Row starts right away with two known facts we should never forget: in America, rich areas end up with well-funded public schools…
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Highly Recommended Album: HERE WE ARE (Original Cast Recording from Concord Theatricals)
HERE IT IS The Original Cast Recording of Here We Are, the new musical from David Ives and Stephen Sondheim, will be released on CD and digital platforms worldwide on Friday, May 17, 2024. The album will be available on 2-LP, 180g baby blue vinyl on Friday, September 6 on Concord Theatricals Recordings. And I couldn’t be happier because, if for…
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Cabaret Review: APRIL FOOLS (Birdland Jazz Club)
FEAST OF FOOLS Nobody knows when April Fools’ Day started, but sure as shooting, on April 1st, someone is going to tell you your zipper is open or they just heard your number called on television and you won the lottery. Some say April Fools’ Day goes back to a Roman festival called Hilaria, celebrated…
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Off-Broadway Review: TEETH (Playwrights Horizon)
PUSSY POWER How can we eradicate misogyny? Meet vagina dentata, a penis-eating vagina, the product of an ancient folk tale that exists in virtually every culture, and it has now landed at Playwrights Horizons in the form of a shameless, outrageous, campy-horror musical, Teeth. It is based on a eponymous 2007 film written and directed…
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Recommended Theater: NO FUCKS GIVEN. NONE TAKEN. ALL DONE. (The Wild Project)
Written and performed by Pamela L Paek and directed by Shinshin Yuder Tsai, No fucks given. None taken. All done. is (1) A life mantra. (2) A way of cutting through the BS of toxic positivity and social norms too many of us hide behind. (3) An interactive TED talk laced with dark comedy. (4) A show originally…
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Broadway Review: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (Imperial Theatre)
DOG AND PONY SHOW Looking at the long line that stretched all the way to 7th Avenue to get inside the 1920s Imperial Theatre, I thought I was about to see a masterpiece. I was not familiar with the plot but I knew it was a medley of Circus Arts and Broadway Theater, an alluring…
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NEW YORK MUSEUMS WITH DINOSAUR FOSSILS
The fourth floor of the American Museum of Natural History is like dinosaur heaven. It’s home to countless fossils of dinosaurs, sea reptiles and pterosaurs. The museum’s paleontologists, including Barnum Brown and Henry Fairfield Osborn, hunted around the world for fossils. They also enlisted natural history artists such as Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins to mount the…
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Broadway Review: THE NOTEBOOK (Gerald Schoenfeld)
ONE FOR THE NOTEBOOKS While specialty branded tissue boxes are sold for $5 at the merch stands, the ushers at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre should insert more in the playbill of The Notebook. Whether you have had a dear one suffer from conditions that affect memory and thinking, or if you are just a sucker for love…
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Off-Off-Broadway Review: BATHHOUSE.PPTX (The Flea)
READY FOR A HOT BATH? Staged at The Flea Theater in Manhattan between the FBI building and an apocalyptic AT&T windowless high tower, Bathhouse.pptx — described as a “group project for perverts” by its creator Jesús I. Valles — comes with an intangible mysterious quality before it even starts. Sam Gonzalez as Presenter Lights go on,…
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Highly Recommended Concert: KRONOS QUARTET & GHOST TRAIN ORCHESTRA PLAY MOONDOG (The Town Hall in New York City, Tuesday April 16, 2024 at 8pm)
FLY ME TO THE MOONDOG Kronos Quartet and the jazz-chamber ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra will perform Music of Moondog at The Town Hall on Tuesday, April 16 at 8 p.m. The concert will be the first time both ensembles collaborate to present their album Songs and Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog live in New York City. The performance will also feature David Byrne, and…
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Cabaret Review: EVERYTHING THE TRAFFIC WILL ALLOW (Klea Blackhurst’s Tribute to Ethel Merman)
BLOW, BLACKHURST, BLOW! When Klea Blackhurst burst onto the stage at Chelsea Table & Stage on March 10 to perform Everything the Traffic Will Allow, one might have well imagined the original Ethel Merman had come to life. Then Blackhurst belted out her first note and it was hard not to be convinced the diva…
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Off-Broadway Review: LIKE THEY DO IN THE MOVIES (Laurence Fishburne at PAC/NYC)
AN ENGAGING FISHBURNE DOES A SLOW BURN Who doesn’t want to see Laurence Fishburne in a solo play he describes as “The stories and lies people have told me. And that I have told myself”? The theater at PAC/NYC, part of the World Trade Center complex, was packed with fans last night, and it was…
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